What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.